pers now appeared as Station Bulle- 

 tins. Technical Bulletins, Research 

 Reports, and increasingly as Scientific 

 Contributions in various Scientific 

 Journals (see Figure 1). According to 

 W. E. Urban, Jr., Technical Bulletins 

 were officially dropped in 1966 and 

 Research Reports standardized to 

 8"xll" (regional interest) and Station 

 Bulletins 6"x9" (national interest). 



Sources of funds for agricultural 

 research during this period were the 

 U.S.D.A., the state of New Hampshire, 

 commercial grants, and other federal 

 agencies such as the National Insti- 

 tutes of Health, in Washington, D.C. 

 Since 1951 , or earlier, Hubbard Farms, 

 Inc. of Walpole, N.H. supported a 

 graduate research assistantship in 

 Animal Sciences and later a summer 

 undergraduate research fellowship. 



Agricultural Economics 



During this period. Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics endured two name changes. In 

 1964 the group became known as the 

 Department of Resource Economics. 

 This was a more descriptive name 

 indicating the broad research efforts of 

 the Department. A second reorganiza- 

 tion occurred in 1969 and will be dis- 

 cussed later. 



H. C. Grinnell, who had retired as 

 Dean, wrote an economic appraisal of 

 public education in the State (1964). 

 Grinnell said, "There are extreme 

 variations among school districts , more 

 particularly with respect to such eco- 

 nomic factors as total equalized valu- 

 ation, equalized valuation per capita, 

 trends in population, and the distribu- 

 tion of taxable property as classified 

 by the Planning and Development 

 Commission in 1957. It is because of 

 these variations that some districts are 

 more able than others to provide better 

 facilities, pay higher salaries and have 



fewer pupils per teacher, and without 

 an appreciable increase in the tax rate. " 



His second publication in 1967 

 described the patterns of expenditure 

 among rural N.H. school districts. 

 "When relating the number of pupils 

 or population to expenditures per 

 pupil, the average indicates some 

 economies of scale. The deviations 

 from average are great particularly 

 among districts of small population 

 and a correspondingly small number 

 of pupils. This divergence declines 

 and, in fact, becomes quite narrow 

 among the larger districts. The amount 

 of variance, however, cannot be ex- 

 plained on the basis of population 

 alone." 



C. R. Burbee, E. T. Bardwell and 

 W. F. Henry continued working on the 

 general project of "Marketing New 

 England Poultry." Firm size, supply 

 density and transport distance were 

 evaluated as to their influence on effi- 

 ciency and cost. They found that 

 "combining the costs of processing 

 and assembly develops a more com- 

 plete picture of marketing costs than 

 either of the enterprises taken sepa- 

 rately." The chick hatchery study 

 evaluated hatcheries with output of 

 1.3 million to 21.7 million chicks per 

 year. Economies in hatching and dis- 

 tribution are such that production 

 density would make it economical for 

 a poultry integrator to "construct and 

 operate its own broiler production fa- 

 cilities close to the premises and 

 hatching facilities." 



With the arrival of the first Uni- 

 versity-owned computer in 1962, new 

 areas and types of methodology were 

 available to the Station's economists. 

 Simulation analysis was used in a for- 

 age production and utilization study 

 bv C. Cloud, G. E. Frick and R. A. 



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